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To: Tailgunner Joe
The other old left-wing canard Jensen tossed out during the interview was that America was the most militarily oriented society in history.

Maybe that's true, if those in the dustbin of history don't count. But if they do, there is no example of a Communist country that spent less of its GDP on arms than the U.S. 'Course some of them were pretty good at cooking the books to disguise that fact, but . . .

2 posted on 07/08/2002 1:09:33 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Trying to classify as liberal or conservative a political system that defies categorization has to rank up there as one of the truly dumb arguments of the week. I suppose by Morse's definition anarchists are the ultimate conservatives since they believe in the least government?
7 posted on 07/08/2002 1:16:24 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
That line stood out as especially silly. Jensen should first consider Prussia. The United States are hardly militaristic compared to Prussia.
17 posted on 07/08/2002 1:49:00 PM PDT by Lee_Atwater
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
The other old left-wing canard Jensen tossed out during the interview was that America was the most militarily oriented society in history.

Obviously Jensen does not know history and is a revisionist; this adage is one of the biggest lies told by the left. As for the fascist charge, the word Nazi in itself is a slang term for "National Socialism". Today animals like Jensen want to "nationalize" the economy and "socialize" the culture without the "nationalism" of feeling proud of your western and modernized country. In fact, Jensen and his new Reichists want people to feel proud of being in the "international" socialist community. So I would put forth the notion that they are INAZI's; slang for "international socialists".

23 posted on 07/08/2002 2:38:10 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
If it is left-wing, why does NAZI mean National Socialist Party?
25 posted on 07/08/2002 2:46:26 PM PDT by jammer
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
But if they do, there is no example of a Communist country that spent less of its GDP on arms than the U.S. 'Course some of them were pretty good at cooking the books to disguise that fact, but . . .

Yes but a major cost of our military is payroll for a very professional military. If we adopted the communistic/third world way, of relying on very low paid, highly-expendable draftees. Then our costs would be much less.

But I think that the real test of how militaristic a society is not the GDP, but the percentage of population in the military(or having been in). For example Israel and Switzerland have a much higher percentage of their population in the military. And the authority the military has over other aspects of society. For example can Army Generals veto election results??? In many nations they can.

38 posted on 07/08/2002 4:09:30 PM PDT by Sci Fi Guy
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